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Eliezer Tamir a2fbb9ea23 add bnx2x driver for BCM57710
Signed-off-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezert@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:03:53 -08:00
Sten Wang 7a47dd7a2f [NET]: Add support for the RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet controller
This patch adds support for the RDC R6040 MAC we can find in the RDC
R-321x System-on-chips.

Signed-off-by: Sten Wang <sten.wang@rdc.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
2008-01-28 15:03:47 -08:00
Adrian Bunk f1862b0ae2 [SHAPER]: The scheduled shaper removal.
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the shaper driver.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-28 15:00:29 -08:00
Andrew Victor 2b3b3516b6 [ARM] 4764/1: [AT91] AT91CAP9 core support
Add support for Atmel's AT91CAP9 Customizable Microcontroller family.
  <http://www.atmel.com/products/AT91CAP/Default.asp>

Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:01:13 +00:00
Johann Felix Soden 889c94a14e Fix file references in documentation and Kconfig
Fix typo in arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree_env.h.
There is no Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt.

README.cycladesZ is now in Documentation/.
wavelan.p.h is now in drivers/net/wireless/.
HFS.txt is now Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt.
OSS-files are now in sound/oss/.

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-22 10:43:36 -08:00
Jason Uhlenkott e236ed23f8 e1000e Kconfig: remove ref to nonexistant docs
There is no Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@jasonuhl.org>
Cc: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-18 14:40:18 -05:00
Stephen Hemminger ab7a983176 ip1000: menu location change
Move the ip1000 driver into the expected place for gigabit cards
in the configuration menu structure. It should be under the gigabit
cards, not at the top level.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-12 17:41:04 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 4af7565303 Revert "make bnx2x select ZLIB_INFLATE"
This reverts commit 70eba18b56, as per
Jeff Garzik:

   "That was meant for 2.6.25, and actually (due to patching) applied to
    a completely unrelated 2.6.24 net driver."

Noted-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Requested-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-11 19:28:36 -08:00
Eliezer Tamir 70eba18b56 make bnx2x select ZLIB_INFLATE
The bnx2x module depends on the zlib_inflate functions.  The
build will fail if ZLIB_INFLATE has not been selected manually
or by building another module that automatically selects it.

Modify BNX2X config option to 'select ZLIB_INFLATE' like BNX2
and others.  This seems to fix it.

Signed-off-by:  Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Eliezer Tamir <eliezert@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-07 15:01:39 -05:00
Paul Mundt 0313d9884f net: smc911x: only enable for mpr2 on sh.
The smc911x.h is a bit of a mess, not supporting any sort of generic
configuration. For the moment only ARCH_PXA and SH_MAGIC_PANEL_R2 have
suitable definitions, so we reflect this in the Kconfig also.

While there are other SH boards that will likely turn this on in the
2.6.25 time frame, it's not worth trying to stub around at the moment.

Fixes up the allmodconfig build, as noted by akpm.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-01 16:32:32 -05:00
Mike Frysinger 95af9feb49 Blackfin SMC91x Driver: punt CONFIG_BFIN -- we already have CONFIG_BLACKFIN
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-23 22:09:02 -05:00
Adrian Bunk 57ce45dd16 [NET]: Remove references to net-modules.txt.
When I removed net-modules.txt because it only contained ancient
information I missed that many Kconfig entries pointed to this ancient
information.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-12 21:03:58 -08:00
Magnus Damm 8687991a73 ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies
ax88796: add superh to kconfig dependencies

This patch adds sh architecture support to the ax88796 kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-10 04:25:15 -05:00
Rusty Russell 6a9a025086 [VETH]: Clarify "virtual ethernet device" to "virtual ethernet pair device".
It'd also be nice to mention "containers" somewhere in the help text
(I'm assuming that's what it's for?).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:11:40 -08:00
Grant Likely 644fdf9b08 mpc5200: Fix Kconfig dependancies on MPC5200 FEC device driver
When not building an arch/powerpc kernel, the mpc5200 FEC driver depends
on some symbols which are not defined (BESTCOMM & BESTCOMM_FEC).

This patch flips around the dependancy logic so that it cannot be
selected unless BESTCOMM_FEC is selected first.  Kconfig stops
complaining this way.

Also, the driver only works for arch/powerpc (not arch/ppc) anyway so
it should depend on PPC_MERGE also.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-11-01 16:04:45 -04:00
Domen Puncer 5d031e9e7e FEC - fast ethernet controller for mpc52xx
Driver for ethernet on mpc5200/mpc5200b SoCs (FEC).

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen.puncer@telargo.com>
Acked-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-29 05:59:10 -04:00
Francois Romieu d1417862d7 ipg: Kconfig whitepaces/tab damages
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Huang <jesse@icplus.com.tw>
Cc: Sorbica Shieh <sorbica@icplus.com.tw>
2007-10-28 18:21:15 +01:00
Francois Romieu bbd82f956e ipg: missing Kconfig dependency
Fix for the error below while linking vmlinux:
[...]
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ipg_ioctl':
drivers/net/ipg.c:2148: undefined reference to `generic_mii_ioctl'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ipg_get_settings':
drivers/net/ipg.c:2181: undefined reference to `mii_ethtool_gset'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ipg_set_settings':
drivers/net/ipg.c:2193: undefined reference to `mii_ethtool_sset'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ipg_nway_reset':
drivers/net/ipg.c:2205: undefined reference to `mii_nway_restart'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Huang <jesse@icplus.com.tw>
Cc: Sorbica Shieh <sorbica@icplus.com.tw>
2007-10-28 18:21:10 +01:00
Jeff Garzik 02bae21297 Merge branch 'features' of git://farnsworth.org/dale/linux-2.6-mv643xx_eth into upstream 2007-10-23 20:15:54 -04:00
Lennert Buytenhek 9c1bbdfe6f mv643xx_eth: Enable use on Orion platforms
Allow Orion ARM platforms to use the mv643xx_eth driver.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
2007-10-23 08:23:03 -07:00
Rusty Russell 296f96fcfc Net driver using virtio
The network driver uses two virtqueues: one for input packets and one
for output packets.  This has nice locking properties (ie. we don't do
any for recv vs send).

TODO:
	1) Big packets.
	2) Multi-client devices (maybe separate driver?).
	3) Resolve freeing of old xmit skbs (Christian Borntraeger)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
2007-10-23 15:49:54 +10:00
Linus Torvalds c00046c279 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits)
  fix do_sys_open() prototype
  sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
  Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
  Typo: depricated -> deprecated
  Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
  fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment
  proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field
  small documentation fixes
  Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
  docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
  documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
  Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
  include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros
  trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
  Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
  file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help
  remove unused return within void return function
  Typo fixes retrun -> return
  x86 hpet.h: remove broken links
  ...
2007-10-19 20:36:17 -07:00
Randy Dunlap e0d5dab24d ir-functions.c:(.text+0xbce18): undefined reference to `input_event'
[bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:]

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Drivers that use lro functions should depend on INET, otherwise they
may not link correctly.  Let's not select INET.  Select should be used
only for library-like code, not to enable subsystems.

ERROR: "lro_flush_all" [drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "lro_receive_frags" [drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-19 23:00:02 -04:00
Randy Dunlap bf45abeb1d NAPI: kconfig prompt and deleted doc file
- make the kconfig NAPI option prompt consistent across all net drivers
  (other than EXPERIMENTAL; can it now be removed also, or is the new
  napi_struct implementation now EXPERIMENTAL ?)
- remove comment about the now-deleted NAPI_HOWTO.txt file
- clean up typos in Tulip NAPI & Interrupt Mitigation

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-19 23:00:02 -04:00
Matt LaPlante 01dd2fbf0d typo fixes
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.

Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger 678aa1f6ac skge: add a debug interface
Add a debugfs interface to look at internal ring state.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-16 21:10:29 -04:00
Matteo Croce d95b39c390 AR7 ethernet
New version which uses less locking and drops old API

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <technoboy85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-15 14:24:08 -04:00
David S. Miller a3138df9f2 [NIU]: Add Sun Neptune ethernet driver.
With cleanup suggestions and bugs spotted by Stephen Hemminger,
Ingo Oeser, Matheos Worku, and Oliver Hartkopp.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:54:38 -07:00
Markus Brunner 726d722e41 smc911x irq sense request and MPR2 board support
Hi,

this are the changes to the smc911x driver, which were necessary
to get it running on the Magic Panel R2 (smsc9115).
It is a SH3-DSP based board. The other patches are available on
the linuxsh-dev mailinglist.
http://marc.info/?l=linuxsh-dev&r=1&b=200708&w=2

It was necessary to set the irq sense to low level.
Therefor the SMC_IRQ_SENSE define was added.
How are the chances for inclusion in 2.6.24?

Signed-off by: Markus Brunner <super.firetwister@gmail.com>
Signed-off by: Mark Jonas <toertel@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:54:06 -07:00
Magnus Damm 89e536a190 ax88796: add 93cx6 eeprom support
Hook up the 93cx6 eeprom code to the ax88796 driver and modify the ax88796
driver to read out the mac address from the eeprom.  We need this for the
ax88796 on certain SuperH boards.  The pin configuration used to connect
the eeprom to the ax88796 on these boards is the same as pointed out by the
ax88796 datasheet, so we can probably reuse this code for multiple
platforms in the future.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:53:56 -07:00
Maciej W. Rozycki f5279ffdce sb1250-mac: Driver model & phylib update
A driver model and phylib update.  It includes the following changes:

1. Removal of unused module options.

2. Phylib support and the resulting removal of generic bits for handling
   the PHY.

3. Proper reserving of device resources and using ioremap()ped handles
   to access MAC registers rather than platform-specific macros.

4. Handling of the device using the driver model.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:53:47 -07:00
Nathanael Nerode c7e86e344b dgrs: remove from build, config, and maintainer list
Stop building and configuring driver for Digi RightSwitch, which was
never actually sold to anyone, and remove it from MAINTAINERS.

In response to an investigation into the firmware of the "Digi Rightswitch"
driver, Andres Salomon discovered:
>
> Dear Andres:
>
> After further research, we found that this product was killed in place
> and never reached the market.  We would like to request that this not be
> included.

Since the product never reached market, clearly nobody is using this orphaned
driver.

Signed-off-by: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:53:44 -07:00
Maciej W. Rozycki 1a9e8549ef NET_SB1250_MAC: Rename to SB1250_MAC
Rename NET_SB1250_MAC to SB1250_MAC to follow the convention.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:51:54 -07:00
Maciej W. Rozycki 25a72dfe04 NET_SB1250_MAC: Update Kconfig entry
The SB1250 network interfaces are Gigabit Ethernet ones.  Move the
Kconfig entry to the appropriate section and add some help text.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:51:53 -07:00
David Gibson 1d3bb99648 Device tree aware EMAC driver
Based on BenH's earlier work, this is a new version of the EMAC driver
for the built-in ethernet found on PowerPC 4xx embedded CPUs.  The
same ASIC is also found in the Axon bridge chip.  This new version is
designed to work in the arch/powerpc tree, using the device tree to
probe the device, rather than the old and ugly arch/ppc OCP layer.

This driver is designed to sit alongside the old driver (that lies in
drivers/net/ibm_emac and this one in drivers/net/ibm_newemac).  The
old driver is left in place to support arch/ppc until arch/ppc itself
reaches its final demise (not too long now, with luck).

This driver still has a number of things that could do with cleaning
up, but I think they can be fixed up after merging.  Specifically:
	- Should be adjusted to properly use the dma mapping API.
Axon needs this.
	- Probe logic needs reworking, in conjuction with the general
probing code for of_platform devices.  The dependencies here between
EMAC, MAL, ZMII etc. make this complicated.  At present, it usually
works, because we initialize and register the sub-drivers before the
EMAC driver itself, and (being in driver code) runs after the devices
themselves have been instantiated from the device tree.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:51:52 -07:00
Bryan Wu eeb70af91d Blackfin EMAC driver: add a select for the PHYLIB of this driver
Since we are adding requirement for the PHYLIB for this driver, there should be a select for that

Cc: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:51:51 -07:00
Michael Buesch 753f492093 [B44]: port to native ssb support
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:51:43 -07:00
Andy Gospodarek 1a348ccc10 [NET]: Add Tehuti network driver.
[ Ported to napi_struct changes... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:34 -07:00
Francois Romieu 1202d6ff35 [IPG]: add IP1000A driver to kernel tree
Signed-off-by: Jesse Huang <jesse@icplus.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:33 -07:00
Auke Kok 9a799d7103 ixgbe: driver for Intel(R) 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE adapters (v4)
This patch adds support for the Intel 82598 PCI-Express 10GbE
chipset. Devices will be available on the market soon.

This version of the driver is largely the same as the last release:

  * Driver uses a single RX and single TX queue, each using 1 MSI-X
  irq vector.
  * Driver runs in NAPI mode only
  * Driver is largely multiqueue-ready (TM)

Changes since 20070803:
  * removed wrappers for hardware functions
  * incorporated e1000e-style HW api reorganization code
  * sparse/checkpatch cleanups, namespace cleanups
  * driver prints out extra debugging information at load time
    identifying adapter board number, mac, phy types
  * removed ixgbe_api.c, ixgbe_api.h, ixgbe_osdep.h
  * driver update to 1.1.18
  * removed ixgbe.txt which contained no useful info anymore

[ Integrated napi_struct changes from Auke as well... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ayyappan Veeraiyan <ayyappan.veeraiyan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:02 -07:00
Komuro df950828b0 dl2k: add Sundance/Tamarack TC902x Gigabit Ethernet Adapter support
Actually, D-Link modified the VendorID/ProductID of the TC902x.
The TC902x is the original chipset.

Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:50:42 -07:00
Auke Kok bc7f75fa97 [E1000E]: New pci-express e1000 driver (currently for ICH9 devices only)
This driver implements support for the ICH9 on-board LAN ethernet
device. The device is similar to ICH8.

The driver encompasses code to support 82571/2/3, es2lan and ICH8
devices as well, but those device IDs are disabled and will be
"lifted" from the e1000 driver over one at a time once this driver
receives some more live time.

Changes to the last snapshot posted are exclusively in the internal
hardware API organization. Many thanks to Jeff Garzik for jumping in
and getting this organized with a keen eye on the future layout.

[ Integrated napi_struct patch from Auke as well... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:50:40 -07:00
Ralf Baechle bbfb86c577 IOC3: Switch hw checksumming to ethtool configurable.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10 16:50:20 -07:00
Satyam Sharma 0bcc181618 [NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>.

This patch introduces support for dynamic reconfiguration (adding, removing
and/or modifying parameters of netconsole targets at runtime) using a
userspace interface exported via configfs.  Documentation is also updated
accordingly.

Issues and brief design overview:

(1) Kernel-initiated creation / destruction of kernel objects is not
    possible with configfs -- the lifetimes of the "config items" is managed
    exclusively from userspace.  But netconsole must support boot/module
    params too, and these are parsed in kernel and hence netpolls must be
    setup from the kernel.  Joel Becker suggested to separately manage the
    lifetimes of the two kinds of netconsole_target objects -- those created
    via configfs mkdir(2) from userspace and those specified from the
    boot/module option string.  This adds complexity and some redundancy here
    and also means that boot/module param-created targets are not exposed
    through the configfs namespace (and hence cannot be updated / destroyed
    dynamically).  However, this saves us from locking / refcounting
    complexities that would need to be introduced in configfs to support
    kernel-initiated item creation / destroy there.

(2) In configfs, item creation takes place in the call chain of the
    mkdir(2) syscall in the driver subsystem.  If we used an ioctl(2) to
    create / destroy objects from userspace, the special userspace program is
    able to fill out the structure to be passed into the ioctl and hence
    specify attributes such as local interface that are required at the time
    we set up the netpoll.  For configfs, this information is not available at
    the time of mkdir(2).  So, we keep all newly-created targets (via
    configfs) disabled by default.  The user is expected to set various
    attributes appropriately (including the local network interface if
    required) and then write(2) "1" to the "enabled" attribute.  Thus,
    netpoll_setup() is then called on the set parameters in the context of
    _this_ write(2) on the "enabled" attribute itself.  This design enables
    the user to reconfigure existing netconsole targets at runtime to be
    attached to newly-come-up interfaces that may not have existed when
    netconsole was loaded or when the targets were actually created.  All this
    effectively enables us to get rid of custom ioctls.

(3) Ultra-paranoid configfs attribute show() and store() operations, with
    sanity and input range checking, using only safe string primitives, and
    compliant with the recommendations in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt.

(4) A new function netpoll_print_options() is created in the netpoll API,
    that just prints out the configured parameters for a netpoll structure.
    netpoll_parse_options() is modified to use that and it is also exported to
    be used from netconsole.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:48:06 -07:00
Andrew Gallatin 1e6e9342d4 [MYRI10GE]: Use LRO.
Singed off by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:47 -07:00
Jan-Bernd Themann d4dc4ec9d8 [EHEA]: Use LRO.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:47 -07:00
Pavel Emelyanov e314dbdc1c [NET]: Virtual ethernet device driver.
Veth stands for Virtual ETHernet. It is a simple tunnel driver
that works at the link layer and looks like a pair of ethernet
devices interconnected with each other.

Mainly it allows to communicate between network namespaces but
it can be used as is as well.

The newlink callback is organized that way to make it easy to
create the peer device in the separate namespace when we have
them in kernel.

This implementation uses another interface - the RTM_NRELINK
message introduced by Patric.

Bug fixes from Daniel Lezcano.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:46 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger 5ad887fa8e sk98lin: resurrect driver
This reverts commit e1abecc489.

The driver works on some hardware that skge doesn't handle yet.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-09-15 19:35:14 -04:00
Jan Engelhardt 06bfb7eb15 Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig items
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-18 09:52:50 -07:00
James Chapman 143cf35324 [PPPOL2TP]: Add CONFIG_INET Kconfig dependency.
PPPOL2TP uses UDP so it obviously depends on CONFIG_INET.

Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-31 02:28:29 -07:00